[Hiring] Commercial and Product Counsel @Arceus

Role Description

At Arceus, we believe the way companies receive legal support is overdue for reinvention. Legal teams are expected to move faster than ever across commercial, product, privacy, procurement, and operational work, but the tools and delivery models available to them haven't kept pace. We're building the legal infrastructure layer for modern companies — combining experienced attorneys with intelligent technology to deliver high-quality legal services at the speed growing businesses demand.

This is a remote role based anywhere in the U.S.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing
• 5-8 years of experience practicing law, with significant experience supporting technology companies; experience as in-house counsel or as a sole legal counsel is required
• Specialize in commercial, product, and privacy law
• A deeply customer-first mindset: responsive, empathetic, low-ego, and committed to delivering practical advice that helps the business move forward
• A relentless process mindset: always faster, better, more consistent
• Experience with, or real excitement about, AI-assisted legal workflows
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous, high-ownership environment
• Strong grounding in professional responsibility and legal ethics
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Requirements

• You're an attorney who thrives as a trusted partner to fast-moving companies.
• You've spent years advising on commercial transactions, ideally with real exposure to product, privacy, and the day-to-day legal grind.
• You move fast, give practical advice, and catch the details everyone else misses.
• You lead with empathy and responsiveness, take time to understand what the customer is trying to accomplish, and optimize for practical outcomes — not abstract legal perfection.
• We're especially excited to meet attorneys who've been the sole counsel or first legal hire somewhere.
• You're comfortable wearing multiple hats and balancing competing priorities across the legal function.

Benefits

• Hourly rate of $100–$150, based on experience
• Up to 20 hours per week, depending on business and client needs
• Part-time independent contractor engagement
• Opportunity to convert to full-time

What You’ll Own

• Serve as Commercial and Product Counsel and help scale contract review and legal operations.
• Work directly with customers as an extension of their in-house team, delivering practical, business-first advice.
• Build trusted customer relationships by communicating proactively, understanding each customer’s business priorities, and treating their outcomes as your own.
• Review and negotiate commercial contracts; advise on product and privacy matters across the day-to-day needs of growing tech companies.
• Partner closely with legal and product teams to move contracts through efficiently and accurately.
• Interpret contract terms and surface key obligations, risks, and anomalies.
• Operate our internal tooling to streamline review — and partner with product and engineering to make the platform faster and more accurate over time.
• Spot inefficiencies and patterns in the review process, then fix them.
• Standardize and codify recurring contract types, review playbooks, and quality bars.
• Protect turnaround and SLA commitments.
• Partner with operations to evolve how we deliver legal services as we scale.